Tracey Herd

Biography

Summary

Tracey Herd was born in East Kilbride in 1968 and has lived and worked in Dundee; she is now working as a Royal Literary Fund Lector and participating in their Bridge Project.

Full Biography

Tracey Herd was born in East Kilbride in 1968 and now lives in Dundee. She studied English and American Studies at the University of Dundee, graduating in 1991; she was Creative Writing Fellow at Dundee from 1998-2001.

In 1993 she won an Eric Gregory Award; in 1995 was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Bursary; in 1997 took part in Bloodaxe’s New Blood tour of Britain, and in 2004 received a Creative Scotland Bursary. She was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Dundee University in 2009-11, and is now working as a Royal Literary Fund Lector and participating in their Bridge Project.

Tracey Herd has published three collections with Bloodaxe: No Hiding Place (1996), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; Dead Redhead (2001), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and Not in This World (2015), a Poetry Book Society Choice shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.